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The city this morning will celebrate the opening of its sixth park, Northgate Neighborhood Park.

A children's bounce house, rock-climbing structure and disc jockey will be part of the celebration, which will be from 10 a.m. to noon at 3555 W. Oakland Park Blvd.

The park features two pavilions, a basketball court, playground and walking trail. It joins three other parks the city has opened this year: Cypress Preserve Park, Westgate Neighborhood Park and C-13 Canal Linear Park.

The city found about $8 million to build the parks from several pots of money, including a $15 million neighborhood-improvement bond that city voters approved in 2004 and a $400 million Safe Parks and Land Preservation Bond that Broward voters approved in 2000.

South Florida

Two drivers killed as vehicle is torn, police say

Two drivers were killed Friday morning after an accident that injured a passenger and left a vehicle torn in two, Miami police said. The accident happened around 2:20 a.m. near the intersection of Northwest 22nd Avenue and Seventh Street, near the Orange Bowl.

Christopher Freyre, 21, was driving a 2005 Nissan Maxima and lost control while swerving to avoid a 1995 Mazda MX-6 on the same street.

The Maxima crashed into a concrete pole, which fell on the MX-6. Freyre, who was not wearing a seat belt, was tossed from the car upon impact, landing 100 feet away. He died at the scene and the car was split in two, the report said.

The driver of the MX-6, Ricco Love, 29, also died. His passenger, Maria Batista, suffered minor injuries. Her age was not released.

Stumping in Boca Raton, Rudy Giuliani took a tough stance on Iran and vowed that, if elected president, he'd beef up border security to halt illegal immigration but also allow more people to come here legally.

The former New York City mayor, now seeking the Republican nomination for president, took a break from increasingly heated rhetoric with campaign rival Mitt Romney. Feisty exchanges between the two have dominated the campaign in recent weeks, but Giuliani didn't mention any other candidates during nearly an hour on stage before a packed ballroom at the Boca Raton Marriott.

Taking friendly questions from an enthusiastic audience, Giuliani talked up a global economy based on free-trade practices, promised to shrink the size of the federal government and reign in what he termed frivolous lawsuits.

South Florida

Children's hospital drops the Nicklaus name

The Nicklaus Children's Hospital at St. Mary's Medical Center on Friday dropped the surname of golf legend Jack Nicklaus.

The 81-bed children's hospital opened in 2004 with the support of the Nicklaus Children's Health Care Foundation. Hospital officials said it was "time to refocus the relationship" with the foundation because of limitations on how much money the foundation can give the hospital, which pays taxes. The foundation, though, will continue to support the hospital, now named Children's Hospital at St. Mary's.

Its services include the Child Life Institute, which offers psychosocial and educational support, two pediatric intensive care unit family rooms and two cystic fibrosis medical directors.

Miami

Man taken to hospital after 50-foot fall on cruise ship

A man who fell 50 feet aboard a cruise ship was transported to a hospital by a Miami-Dade Fire Rescue boat Friday morning.

The man fell sometime before 5 a.m. aboard the Norwegian Majesty, a cruise ship traveling from the Florida Keys to North Carolina, according to Miami-Dade Fire Rescue. He fell within the ship and not into the water.

The cause of the accident is still unknown, but alcohol may have been involved, a U.S. Coast Guard spokesman said.

The man was conscious but the extent of the injuries was unknown.

The Fire Rescue boat intercepted the ship near a buoy 10 miles south of Key Biscayne. A Key Biscayne Fire Rescue unit picked him up on land and took him to Jackson Memorial Hospital for treatment.